RECONSTRUCTION(1863-77)
major groups involved
antebellum Southern planter aristocracy
Southern yeoman farmers and Unionists
*Andrew Johnson(1808-75)
*Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Northern Democrats and moderate Republicans
Samuel Jones Tilden
ex-slaves and free African-Americans
Course of Reconstruction, 1865-1869
presidential Reconstruction(April-December 1865)
congressional Reconstruction(December 1865-1869)
Reconstruction Acts
congressional efforts to assist African-Americans
*"Forty Acres and a Mule" proposal
*Freedmen's Bureau
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
Civil Rights Act(1866)
impeachment of Johnson
Reconstruction at the state level
participants
Southern Democrats
*Ku Klux Klan
*"carpetbaggers"
"scalawags"
*"Redemption"
Conclusion of Reconstruction